It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his father, which we were forbidden to use.
We're used to shooting our own stuff on our cellphones. We're used to capturing everything.
For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography was turning toward the conceptual. So I wasn't carrying around cameras shooting stuff, I was developing concepts about what I wanted to shoot. And then I'd get the camera angle and do the job.
I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.
I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.
With my YouTube videos, I used to edit a lot of my own videos, so I've gotten used to seeing myself on camera.
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.
My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.